I'm happy with my performance, one thing that I realize more and more is that everything matters in poker (in other jobs or areas in your life as well, but this is poker forum, so...), all the things your physical state, your nutrition, sleeping, your schedule making, that will you do first, what will you do second on particular day an so on, working on your game, studying new concepts, improving your mentality and etc., when you perform at highest level on all these areas you will be able to perform at the same level in poker. Short version of this: high performance in one area leads to better performance in another and IMO all areas in life are related.

I will post some hands later.

Poker goals for the next week:

Play 10k hands

Play A game 2 or 3 tables

Review every session

+5 evbb/100 win rate

Watch 2 poker videos and apply its concepts to my game

Write about my mental game after every session

Non poker goals:

Gym 3 time

Eating healthy 6 days and have one cheat day

Read a book (non poker related) everyday for 30min, target is 3h per week

Read a Bryan Tracy's book The Power of Self-Confidence 3 times a week for 30min and apply it's concepts

Attend seminars at my university

If you have any questions don't hesitate and ask, even if you are thinking that it's a fool question, there are no fool questions, only being scary to ask is foolish. Can even ask about the hand you have played.

This post has been edited 1 time(s), it was last edited by LuckyManFromLT: 14.10.2016 19:55.

Some hands from first week:

1) BB is big fish and UTG is suspected to be a fish. BU reg.

Vs BB and UTG ranges we have a +EV call, but given that BU is left to act behind and he has all KK,QQ and some AJo it's become very tough spot and now I think that folding is better. Of course If I call I'm hitting quads

I block almost all possible flushes w Ac, don't really see him having a set OTR, but he can have it rarely. There are few value hands in his range and he is definitely has 98s in his range besides that he can have some pairs turned into a bluff.

I posted this hand, because I wanted you to show that you need to play very exploitable vs some players and lines.
CO never raised vs cb before. He is tight and this is a 3b pot on pretty dry board ( regarding 3b and calling vs 3b ranges). Pool tendencies are that you almost never see a bluff raise in this spot and vs this particular opponent is even more rare for him to be bluffing. He has AA,JJ,77 at least 95% of the time and I honestly believe this.

Regarding MP range IMO he never has KK or AA in this spot, it's super bad spot to slowplay AA, because he is even deep with UTG.. His range is AK and QQ 99% of the time. Fish can can be doing this with not nutted hands only.

Will be playing 2 or 3 tables Tried to play 4 tables at one time, played like 100 hands, it's to much action for me to play my best game

Review every session Completed

+5 evbb/100 win rate 10,3evbb/100

Watch 2 poker videos and apply its concepts to my game Completed

Write about my mental game after every session Completed

Non poker goals for 2nd week:

Gym 3 time 3/3

Eating healthy 6 days and have one cheat day Still made mistakes at this one

Read a book (non poker related) everyday for 30min, target is 3h per week It's a shame, I dind't read at all

Read a Bryan Tracy's book The Power of Self-Confidence 3 times a week for 30min and apply it's concepts 2/3

Attend seminars at my university 1/3, it's so hard and especially when you have limited time, because for one seminar I need to waste around 50min on average of my time on the road to university only, so in total it's add to about 2h30min for one seminar

This week was not so good in terms of my productivity. I still completed a lot things, which I wanted. Besides there was some other important stuff in my life, which I had to take on. One of them was going to hospital and setting a date for my operation of tonsillectomy. Finally I will get rid off these little parasites.

This week showed one of my problems, why I didn't have time to complete my goals. I'm talking about my hands and reading goals, on which I really failed. The problem, which I knew in my mind, but could't bring that up, was my sleeping, and thanks to my girlfriend for helping to realize it. The problem was that for probably 4 days I went to sleep to late and in the morning I just turned off my alarm and said to myself I will just lie for a few minutes and the I will get up and I will always sleep for extra 1h-1,5h

But this morning my girlfriend called me, she waked me up ( she noticed that I was sleeping to much I past days and she already knew why I missing with my goals this week) and said that I have to change this, because this is the reason why I'm failing at some of my goals, she talked strictly and she made it so simple for me to notice that I have to do, she triggered something in mind as she triggered long time ago and I am so grateful to my life that I have her, because she taught me so much and changed my thinking in so much better way, I wouldn't be the person I am now, I wouldn't have clear goals in my life, I wouldn't be trying so hard to achieve them, if she wouldn't have opened my mind and inspired me with her attitude to life. The best thing that my inspiration/motivator is the women I love, so I can always talk to her about anything that is on mind.

I wish to all of you to find that person in your life, which would change you in a better way, inspire and motivate, teach you the small and simple things about life, which you couldn't notice so far.

Poker goals for the next week:

Play 10k hands

Will be playing 2 or 3 tables

Review every session

+5 evbb/100 win rate

Watch 2 poker videos and apply its concepts to my game

Write about my mental game after every session

Non poker goals:

Follow my sleeping schedule

Gym 3 time

Eating healthy 6 days and have one cheat day

Read a book (non poker related) everyday for 30min, target is 3h per week

Read a Bryan Tracy's book The Power of Self-Confidence 3 times a week for 30min and apply it's concepts

Attend those seminars at my university, which I think is worth my time.

Will post some hands later.

Gl with your goals this week.

If you have any questions don't hesitate and ask, even if you are thinking that it's a fool question, there are no fool questions, only being scary to ask is foolish.

I have all JTs and could might in his eyes have some JTo. I assume he never has these hands. As for turn play don't see much value range besides 55, but given that I'm oop and there so many bad rivers I could fold, my plan was to turn hand into a bluff on some runouts, on some clubs , K and 8.

Will be playing 2 or 3 tables Played 30% on 2 tables and 70% on 3 tables

Review every session Reviewed

+5 evbb/100 win rate 11,3evbb/100

Watch 2 poker videos and apply its concepts to my game 2/2

Write about my mental game after every session Done

Non poker goals:

Follow my sleeping schedule I performed better at this than previous week, but still need to work on this and this week sleeping will be really important

Gym 3 time 3/3

Eating healthy 6 days and have one cheat day Overall I'm pretty satisfied with this, didn't eat healthy 6 days, but I managed to control my portions, when I ate not so good food

Read a book (non poker related) everyday for 30min, target is 3h per week I have read magazine instead, but not 3h in total, so failed at this one

Read a Bryan Tracy's book The Power of Self-Confidence 3 times a week for 30min and apply it's concepts 2/3

Attend those seminars at my university, which I think is worth my time. I attendant all seminars, which I needed

Green = Devoted
Brown = Good signs
Red =Devastated

Challenge graph:

I'm happy with my performance this week given how much time I've had. So as I said before, I wasn't at home for some days, because me and my girlfriend had all weekend planned. It was fantastic, we had a wonderful time, it was very relaxing and we forgot about all the other stuff in our lives. Now we are looking forward for our travel in January, our favorite so far is Dubai, because our priorities are the interesting with a lot of places to see and hot countries, which has sun shining entire day, no snow and higher temperature not like -20°C as in Lithuania at that time

As for my challenge, I will try to finish it until November. I have around 17k hands to play, so it will be very intense week and I hope I will be able to complete it.

Poker goals for the week:

Play 17k hands until November

Play mostly 3 tables

Review every session

+5 evbb/100 win rate

Watch 2 poker videos and apply its concepts to my game

Write about my mental game after every session

Non poker goals:

Follow my strict sleeping schedule

Gym 3 time

Eating healthy 6 days and have one cheat day

Read a Bryan Tracy's book The Power of Self-Confidence 3 times a week for 30min and apply it's concepts

Attend those seminars at my university, which I think is worth my time

I will post some hands later.

Have a great week!

If you have any questions don't hesitate and ask, even if you are thinking that it's a fool question, there are no fool questions, only being scary to ask is foolish.

As you can see at around 23k hands mark I had few rough sessions. After these seesions it was not so easy to recover, for a few days I didn't play my A game, made some silly mistakes, but after few thousands hands I was back on track and played my game. I really happy with my progress, I'm improving almost everyday and I feel that my real winrate is higher, maybe if my goal would be 7bb I would have 7bb, because it looks like that I really don't want to deviate from win rate goal at all
I will not play NL16z anymore, I will do another challenge at NL25z.

The main things that I noticed at NL16z pool:
1) Players are too tight in value betting overall, missing a lot of thin value betting spots
2) Raising ranges post flop are very strong
3) Rarely making protection bets
4) Calling too much in the spots, which they shouldn't
5) Don't play balanced pre flop (3b and 4b ranges)

I need to increase my volume, so the next challenge will be:

Play 60k hands in 30 days at NL25z and have +5evbb/100 win rate.

Now I will take few days off and will not play, but will do a database review to find my leaks and areas to improve.

So I will start play NL25z probably after one week, because I have operation on November 8th, finally my tonsils will be destroyed, goodbye quinsy.

As for other things, I will be giving coaching for the first time! Really waiting for this.

Me and my girlfriend decided to travel to UAE in January, so all the money I earn from rakeback, tourneys and other promotions will be dedicated to this journey, that's why I decided to increase my volume, I'm kidding
but of course it will be better for this travel as well.

When I will be recovered after my operation I will post my goals for a week.

Now for some hands of the challenge:

Biggest pot won

BB is big fish and UTG is suspected to be a fish. BU reg.

Vs BB and UTG ranges we have a +EV call, but given that BU is left to act behind and he has all KK,QQ and some AJo it's become very tough spot and I think that folding is better, so I made a mistake.